Google’s Latest Transparency Report Shows Rise In Content Removal Requests From Russia & Turkey

Google announced today it has released its eighth Transparency Report since 2010 when the search engine began providing data on government requests to remove content.According to the latest Transparency Report covering the first half of 2013, Google saw a “significant” increase in the number of requests from Turkey and Russia, with Russia’s requests to remove content more than double the number of requests the country filed throughout 2012.

For the US, Google says it saw a 70 percent increase in the number of content removal requests compared to the second half of 2012. The site received 27 requests from a federal government agency to suspend 89 apps from the Google Play store for trademark infringement, and removed 76 of the apps after review.

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